(San Francisco) Nine days after the start of the American president's 2003
"shock and awe" uranium bombing campaign in Baghdad, an invisible
radioactive uranium oxide gas cloud swept through Britain's towns and countryside
and throughout Europe.

Respected scientists reported on the unrevealed gas cloud after conducting
research on specialized high volume air filters in England. Dr. Chris Busby
and Saoirse Morgan stunned Europe in a Sunday Times of London article on Feb.
19, 2006. Their scientific paper, released March 1st, 2006, [1] proved the event.
With all the vigor of delusional drunkards, British nuclear and military spokesmen
predictably denied the reality of an invisible radioactive cloud.

The military claimed that a Chernobyl-like event in the area was probably responsible,
but no explosive meltdowns of operating reactor cores have been reported or
observed in 2006 anywhere in the world. Evidence of the truth of the gas cloud
panicked the military into frantic, irrational, ludicrous denials. The military
spin was later refined and the new Chernobyl claim quietly dropped.

In America, lightweight wannabe spin doctor Dan Fahey issued the cover up talking
points. [2] The "nuke sycophants" will take up these siren call lies
as per instructions.

Bush's radioactive "shock and awe" gas cloud descended on Britain
and Europe like a warm, deadly ticking blanket and stayed throughout the American
and British shock and awe bombing campaign in 2003. Bush's radioactive cloud
lasted more than five weeks at high radioactive particle concentration levels.
There is no gas mask filter fine enough to trap this radioactive gas and protect
humans.

At Aldermaston, England, where the data was collected and where the British
Atomic Weapons Establishment, complete with air monitoring facilities, is located,
the deadly uranium oxide gas measured about 48,000 radioactive particles per
square meter. The average radioactive dose, according to official government
index based calculations, was about 23 million radioactive particles for the
average adult male in Britain and Europe.

Yes, people breathed this poison gas, absolutely. People throughout England
and presumably throughout Europe breathed in large quantities of this radioactive
uranium poison gas.

What are the effects of the poison gas cloud? After a steady decline for 41
years, the infant death rate has started inching up, many researchers think
because of the Central Asian nuclear wars. The infant death rate is the most
sensitive measure of the health of the human race. Like the proverbial canaries
in a coal mine, the tiniest babies die first.

George W. Bush, as the current appointed manager of the senior American political
and military establishments, oversees a vast empire that knows exactly what
the effect of millions of pounds of deadly weaponized radioactive ceramic uranium
oxide gas and tiny aerosols are on the health of people throughout the world.
They used uranium munitions in Iraq anyway.

The American political and military leaders wanted to use genocidal weapons.
You might even say the U.S. military went out of their way to use these radiation-based
genocidal weapons in Iraq. Lots of them, too.

Indeed, the American permanent war establishment has known the effect of poisonous
uranium oxide gas since 1943. A declassified World War II memo to Gen. Leslie
Groves, director of the ultra-secretive Manhattan Project to make atomic bombs,
listed two reasons to use radioactive gas: One was to kill people, and the other
was to contaminate their land. [3]

A British newspaper quotes Dr. Busby, a government adviser on radiation, as
saying: "This research shows that rather than remaining near the target,
as claimed by the military, depleted uranium weapons contaminate both locals
and whole populations hundreds to thousands of miles away." [4]

There were and are laws in England that require notification of the government
when levels of radioactivity are reached around the nuclear weapons complex
at Aldermaston. No notification was made. When the records were requested, the
clearly labeled "shock and awe" time frame data was omitted.

The Defense Procurement Agency in Bristol supplied the missing data to scientists
Busby and Morgan. The real British patriots are the ones who provided the deleted
incriminating data to Busby and Morgan.

Bush and his faithful followers, the neocon fascists, will be remembered as
securing their place in history by exposing hundreds of millions of people to
high levels of internal radiation poisoning. Make no mistake about it; this
is real radioactive uranium gas. The Americans used this genetics changing and
killing weapon on men, women and children. It made no difference to the Americans.

The citizen opposition liberal groups in America who only stand on the street
corners with signs are misdirecting legitimate citizen outrage and protest.
These groups are more than just not effective; they contribute to the protection
of the multi-national corporations, senior political and military leaders involved
in these pre-planned war crimes.

About ineffective protests, the famous author Ward Churchill says: "(N)o
one really cares a whit that a sector of the beneficiary population (American
protesters) has chosen to bear a sort of perpetual 'moral witness' to the crimes
committed against the Third World. What they do care about is whether such witnesses
translate their 'professions of outrage' into whatever kinds of actions may
be necessary to actually put an end to the horror." [14] When will the
protesters awaken and take action to put an end to this horror? Never? Sometime?
When?

A well planned effort

The American military is nothing if not well planned. When the decision was
made to go nuclear in conventional warfare with the promiscuous use of radiation
dispersing uranium weapons, including land mines, bullets, shells, missiles
and bombs, the proper and correct Army rules and regulations for radiological
clean-up were created as well. These rules have the force of American law throughout
the world. However, the same government that adopted these rules is not following
them, even in the United States.

Army Rules and Regulations on Radiation Poisoning (AR 700-48 and TB 9-1300-278)
[15] unambiguously specify that U.S. troops and local civilians exposed to radiation
poisoning will be treated. Radiation casualties exist, and provisions are made
for their care as best as can be done for a non-curable bystander affliction:
radiation poisoning. Clean and treat rules also apply; they are just not obeyed.

In short, the regulations say that if the U.S. military is going to use radioactive
weapons, then it must clean up the radiological contamination and treat the
casualties. It is consistent with the philosophy of some "if you break
it, fix it" former U.S. military leaders. The applicable rules and regulations
are a common sense approach and the only responsible radiological warfare position
for the only superpower on the planet.

The rules are not followed even in the United States itself [5] but are buried
away in their mountains of paperwork. Why has this approach been rejected by
the senior U.S. political leadership? http://tinyurl.com/bk2yn

Marion Fulk, a consultant physicist at the Lawrence Livermore Nuclear Weapons
Lab, is one of the original Manhattan Project scientists. When asked if the
main purpose for using depleted uranium was for destroying things and killing
people, Fulk was more specific: "I would say that it is the perfect weapon
for killing lots of people." [6]

Dr. Rosalie Bertell, a respected scientist who serves on a variety of Pentagon
committees, says about 1.3 billion people have already been killed, maimed or
diseased since the nuclear age started. [7] Is this the Pentagon's purpose for
using uranium munitions and rejecting the legally mandated task to treat and
clean?

Most reasonable people would agree that racking up 1.3 billion people killed
or maimed since the beginning of the nuclear age and the American uranium bombing
tragedy spreading the gas cloud to Europe and Britain is not the "treat
and clean" approach to radioactive warfare set out in the regulations.

On the contrary, the Bush radioactive gas cloud is just the opposite. The plain
purpose of exposing hundreds of millions of people would seem to be to kill
and sicken more people. As a rare Pentagon admission said, "The properties
of uranium do not change."

Famed former Lawrence Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab scientist Leuren Moret
has spoken about the dangers of so-called "depleted uranium" in 42
countries. In "Exotic Weapons," the author, radio and film celebrity
states, "Since 1991, the continued U.S. military use of dirty bombs, dirty
missiles and dirty bullets threatens humanity and all living things ... and
is turning Planet Earth into a death star." [8] [12]

Massive carpet bombing of whole countries with uranium bombs appears to be
the current war fighting plan of the U.S. military. Unfortunately, U.S. troops
are the first to be sacrificed on the altar of the neocon warfare plan for total
global domination.

As former U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger
said, "Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign
policy." [9] American political and military leaders never asked the "pawns"
or troops if that was OK.

In the authoritative World Affairs Journal, Moret states: "The Korea Times
reported on Dec. 23, 2005, that the U.S. military has 2.7 million depleted uranium
bombs [pre-positioned] in South Korea. It is understandable why North Korea
wants nuclear weapons." [10]

North Korea is just slightly smaller than the American state of Mississippi.
Two million seven hundred uranium bombs is enough to carpet bomb with workhorse
Air Force B-52s at the rate of 10 bombs per square mile. Some researchers believe
that grid bombing with uranium bombs was used in the American war in the former
Yugoslavia. There is clear circumstantial evidence that carpet bombing with
genocidal weapons is the preferred response of the American military to local
resistance efforts.

The San Francisco-based humanitarian and war crimes lawyer Karen Parker states
unequivocally that the use of depleted uranium in American/U.K. weapons in Iraq,
Afghanistan and the former Yugoslavia is a war crime. War crimes are punishable
by imprisonment or execution, typically by hanging or a firing squad.

America's war criminal class of senior politicians and military leaders has
a powerful reason to lie about using genocidal weapons for at least 15 years
in Central Asia - their very lives depend on it. In Johnny's Dad's words, the
senior leaders are "filthy rotten scum." [16]

Upcoming war crimes trial

The chief Nuremberg war crimes prosecutor speaks knowingly and directly across
more than 50 years to resolutely instruct American citizens on exactly what
our duty is today, right now: "Individuals have international duties which
transcend the national obligations of obedience … therefore have the duty
to violate domestic laws to prevent crimes against peace and humanity from occurring."
[11]

The statement was affirmed by the Nuremberg Tribunal and is now international
law and, by extension, American law. It is our duty as Americans to prevent
crimes against peace and humanity. The fascist administration now controlling
America and the U.S. military cannot be allowed to continue these crimes. The
world and international law holds us all accountable, and the price is dear.

It is time to impeach and imprison members of our government for their war
crimes commensurate with their degree of complicity and guilt. If the House
will not impeach and the Senate will not put them on trial; then we, all 300
million Americans, have a problem.

We all are citizens of this country and the world, and, as such, we must acknowledge
the incontrovertible evidence of war crimes by the leaders of the American Expeditionary
Forces in Iraq with the use of genocidal weapons. Bush and others crossed the
line long ago when they lied to get us into the Iraq War.

They continue to lie about the damage being done with uranium weapons. One
of the comforts history provides us is a road map out of unthinkable situations,
to a more or less tenable, workable future.

The injured and maimed and families of the dead are due treatment and/or compensation,
the cleanup must be initiated and whole countries rebuilt. That is the true
legacy of the neocons, the new American Nazis.

What people can do

Every single day thousands of American military and government workers handle
thousands of "sensitive" papers that "prove" the War Crimes
of the American Government's senior political and military leaders.

These thousands of people could, if they wanted to, create havoc in the fascist
administration by providing these incriminating papers and the "smoking
guns" of innumerable crimes they hold to the public: A "paper blizzard"
to teach a whole new generation that what's right is right.

About 40 years ago, it was thousands of pages of the "Pentagon Papers"
that did the trick with the illegal Viet Nam War and President Nixon. Thousands
more pages are needed now.

The neocon or neolib papers like the disgraced New York Times or the conservative
phantom Washington Post no longer will do the right thing. The timid NYT took
almost a year to publish the proof of illegal NSA government spying on American
citizens. Bush then bragged about the illegal spying on network prime time television.

We do not need "timid" now. Far less than that forced Nixon to leave
the president's office.

Do what you think best

To follow up on these ideas, the following Speaker's Group and individuals
are presented to you for your important events. Speaker's fees are required.

Topics generally include those of interest in building a positive culture in
the midst of a militarized society and items of interest in nuclear warfare.

A well known video, "The 14 Characteristics of Fascism," from Dr.
Lawrence Britt, Ph.D., Mike Malloy and Eric Bumrich is a great, short video.
See http://www.bushflash.com/14.html. It is only a few minutes long but goes
a long way in telling why American leaders embrace the rampant use of genocidal
weapons. The "14 Points" video is a great way to start a meeting.

The following documents were consulted in the preparation of this essay.

1. Dr. Chris Busby and Saoirse Morgan, "Did the use of uranium weapons
in Gulf War 2 result in contamination of Europe?" March 1, 2006, "European
Biology and Bioelectromagnetics." http://www.llrc.org/du/subtopic/aldermastonrept.htm

15. Army Regulation 700-48 and Technical Bulletin 9-1300-278 can be found easily
at the Traprock Peace Site. http://tinyurl.com/erjue and http://tinyurl.com/pzcrm
And the regulations themselves, http://tinyurl.com/kl2r2 and http://tinyurl.com/jzha8
Adobe .pdf versions are also available for download from Traprock Peace Center.

This author won a prized Project Censored Award for an article on depleted
uranium munitions in October 2004. The article was titled "There Are No
Words." http://tinyurl.com/yqxoe (headlined in the Bay View "Radiation
in Iraq equals 250,000 Nagasaki bombs," http://www.sfbayview.com/041404/radiationiniraq041404.shtml.
[13] Turns out that story was but Part One, a thing I never suspected would
be so. This article is Part Two and serves as an update for the war fighting
activities of the senior American political and military leaders.

Bob Nichols is a Project Censored Award Winner. He is a correspondent for the
San Francisco Bay View newspaper and a frequent contributor to various on line
publications. Nichols is completing a book based on 15 years of nuclear war
in Central Asia. Nichols is a former employee of the McAlester Army Ammunition
Plant. Nichols can be reached by email. You are encouraged to write bob.bobnichols@gmail.com
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